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Fact Check: No, but Seriously, Did Kamala Harris Really Ever Work at a McDonald's?

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Let's stipulate that this is hardly the most important issue facing voters as they make their choices over the next few weeks.  It's a sideshow.  And candidly, it was one in which I had very little interest.  Donald Trump has been trolling Kamala Harris over her claim that she worked at a McDonald's while in college, "doing french fries and ice cream."   She never mentioned this before her first presidential run in 2019, having apparently avoided any discussion of this ostensible element of her biography until that point.  Trump has alleged this is a made-up story.  Harris insists it's true.  I really didn't care one way or the other.  My working assumption, while mostly avoiding the whole silly kerfuffle, was that Harris probably did work under the Golden Arches at some point.  Her running mate invents stories about himself all the time; despite he many flaws, I didn't really associate flat-out resume inventions with Harris.  Plagiarism is a different story.  But I will admit that following Trump's successful photo-op/troll at a Pennsylvania McDonald's over the weekend, my doubts are increasing about the veracity of the story. 

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